.@StanfordMedMuse announces 5th Annual Kalanithi Writing Award—for essays, stories, poems about illness—deadline 12/1, open to all 💗 https://t.co/tvfC1MgNSo
you're just as likely to see a comedy job in your local pub as you are in a bit fancy venue. More likely probably. Comedy is great and it's joyful and needs to be supported. That's it from us for now! 5/5
It's important to mention that comedy isn't considered an 'art' so it doesn't benefit from arts funding. This continues to be true right now, mid-pandemic, when it isn't expected to received a penny of the £1.5 billion pledged to support the arts in the UK. 1/
Actors have to wait for someone to cast them. Theatre-makers have to build up to each event. But comedians can have an idea and be on a stage within hours trying it out. It's a uniquely versatile, accessible and immediate art form. Ticket prices are not generally high and 4/
art, honed to make audiences laugh above all else. But it does so much more than that. Comedy can reach people in unique ways, it can provoke thought, it can uplift and teach people how to communicate. It's art. And more than that, it's an accessible art form. 3/
But comedy is an art form. There's so many performance who make comedy in exciting and creative ways that that should be obvious. But even at it's purest level, a stand-up comedian on stage telling jokes? That's art too. It's carefully crafted, practised and well-delivered 2/
Episode 3 is here! We interview the wonderful comedy writer and performer @JonathanSayer1 of @mischiefcomedy who talks Roald Dahl, Atticus Finch and how Adrian Mole guided him through those awkward teenage years!
https://t.co/NDNAceRCJL
#podcast#newepisode#mischieftheatre
Good morning world (or as much of the world that it's morning in). Just a reminder that we release our next episode on Monday and in the meantime you can listen to our first two if you haven't already: https://t.co/njoWWSLqF8
#podcast#books#comedians#lauralexx#eshaanakbar
'Support those who are helping to encourage understanding and respect of black lives and black people’s stories.'
From WriteNow to #InclusiveIndies: a great piece on how to stand with black publishers and bookshops: https://t.co/plQCqGMYqR
Also:
- The Wonder spot by Melissa Banks
- This piece by @HadleyFreeman https://t.co/7Evia2At27
- And this by @Raven__Smith - my fave thing he's ever written https://t.co/UFYI28U5iH
To celebrate the reveal of the 2020 #WomensPrize shortlist (and to relieve one person's lockdown boredom), we're giving away a set of all six shortlisted books 📚
To #win, retweet this and comment with the shortlisted book you're most looking forward to reading.